I still remember a BA concorde arrived on soekarno Hatta airport in jakarta to attend the indonesia airshow in 1996, i was 16 back then, i went there with my father since he also work there as ATC and he calls me "son, there's concorde here,do you want to see it? I'll go back to home to pick you up if you want". And man it was such a honor to meet that beauty, i still have photos of it and yeah it was the unforgettable moment in my life
Check out Boom Aerospace, they’re a supersonic bizjet/airliner startup that actually is performing final assembly of their piloted 1/3rd scale prototype. A.k.a it’s not a paper product
I knew about these, but I’m a fan. As a child I watched Concorde land and takeoff at Bahrain 🇧🇭 for a test flight, the inaugural flight, and some more. Around 1990 or so I saw one of the Air France Concorde charters fly over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the day of the Indy 500. That Concorde delivered fans of a French driver to the Indianapolis airport whence multiple helicopters ferried them to the Speedway. After the race they used the helicopters again, and the Concorde flew over the speedway again shortly after, presumably on its way back to France. They missed a lot of the festivities, but I’m sure their experience was grand. I don’t know at what east coast airport the Concorde must have refueled in each direction.
Another Concorde video. Blessed be 🙏🏻. I always think so very fondly of my flight on G-BOAE from NYC to London. It was an enthusiast’s dream come true. Thanks again
Meanwhile Concorde's Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, flew on a single route from Moscow to Almaty in Kazakhstan. The former Zairean dictator Mobutu also flew on a Concorde from the middle of the jungle just for shopping trips in Paris.
Flew Dulles to Orly in January 1977, what a thrill. 2+2 narrow but very plush seats. Got my Mach 2.02 certificate in the mail 2 months later. Best feature was the “speedometer” in the front bulkhead, everybody clustered around it with cameras when it spooled up past 1.0 then 2.0.
It flew into Leeds/Bradford airport a few times on pleasure flights. The noise was incredible setting off car alarms and making everything shake in our house.
As a kid, I would see the Concorde overfly my hometown on it's way to Rio. It was a beautiful sight for an aviation fan! I have been so blessed to spend my life in the aviation industry!
As a young boy I've enjoyed seeing the arrival from Concord in Rio de Janeiro sitting at Copacabana beach. 1997 I've made my first, but not last flight with Concorde from London to JFK...
Highly recommend going to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. You can walk through a concord but also one of the presidential SAM 707s and the prototype 747-100. While the 707 and 747 are set up very differently from normal passenger aircraft you can certainly see just how small the Concord cabin is compared to these other legendary aircraft from the same era.
AF flew the Concorde with regular service to Toronto international Airport (YYZ) from from 1986 through 1989. BA also flew there although I believe that was more seasonal.
They did, BA's Concorde flew to Toronto on Thursday afternoons as I used to run outside to watch it on its approach. I'll never forget those RR olympuses!
I literally scrolled down into the comments... I saw 2 people celebrating over being ‘first’, and 2 more people celebrating over being ‘third’. How depressing is that? Great video anyways.
If they had the range, yes. Paper studies of an upgraded Concorde B anticipated that kind of route. Then take into account the rapid development of E. Asian economies, and the rise of an affluent/business executive market there, and things could have gotten interesting.
@J Calhoun The 747 certainly did have the range, as well as others. Spent much time on that plane and successors flying back and forth from Japan, and between Japan and other destinations around the Asia/Pacific rim.
Braniff did not provide supersonic service. They weren't allowed overland +mach 1 travel, same with flight to Mexico city, they were subsonic overland then supersonic over Gulf of Mexico
Air France's Concorde flew to Reunion Island(French overseas department) in October 1976 as President Valery Giscard d'Estaing went there! This was the longest domestic flight operated by the Concorde! Also Pope John Paul II flew the Concorde from Reunion too Zambia in Mai 1989 :)
I saw my first one in Paris. Parked next to a 747 - it was extremely small but that obvious contrast was startling. And I would often hear them leaving JFK.
BA flew them into DFW for several months in the late 1980s. IIRC, came in once a week on Thursday, spent the night and then left on Friday. Operated out of terminal 4E and ground serviced by Delta.
I vaguely remember seeing a video a couple years back about the world tour they did in like 99 or 0. The only route I remember was LHR-JFK-YVR- somewhere in Hawaii
Concerning the Paris/Dakar/Rio route - Arrival in Rio, Galeao Intl Airport - do we know which runway Concorde landed on - it would be either on RWY15 or RWY33. any info on this ?
And then there was the time a Concorde was chartered to fly along the path of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_30,_1973
Yes, I knew about the Concorde routes from Dulles to Paris with AF because a Tire burst and failed on an AF Concorde from IAD-CDG and I also knew about the BA route from London Heathrow to Bahrain because the man who broke the world speed record on airline flights flew BA from Heathrow to Bahrain on his journey.
30hour round the world flight on the Concorde and for 15hours you're fly sub sonic. Keep in mind that the seats on the Concorde are essentially economy class seats. I'd rather fly around the world on a wide body in first class
My dad told me that a Concorde made a stop in Trinidad in the 80s. When it came to land, the entire terminal shook. The joke was that the airport could not handle the power
I saw the Concordeseveral times at Galeao airport in Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunately the take-off was not to be seen as the terrace didnot reach the longer runway
The Singapore Airlines concorde flight was scrapped because the Malaysian govt complained the noise was too loud flying over Malaysia. Just trying to unfairly squash competition or jealously in my opinion.
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was an ocean liner, a ship designed for making trans-Atlantic crossings, and not a cruise liner, a ship designed to dawdle along the coast incubating disease.
AF Concorde came to Montréal a couple of times, but it had to land at Mirabel (because Dorval runways are too short ! - D..m useless airport), offload its passenger and cargo and then fly to Dorval with the minimum passengers for the official ceremonies...
I would only imagine a trip from New York to Cancun for the Spring break season. Thing will be taking off at mach one flying down the East Coast over Cuba to Cancun International or the fact of the matter then we would be there in 1 hour and 30 minutes compared to the 4 hour journey that it would take on an 737 400
It's funny how we Indians banned Concorde in our airspace while ourselves using Typhoon-noisy sound-barrier-breaking old fighter jets like the MiG-21. lol
I sow Saturday in the morning in my way go to the beach In Maiquetia Airport Caracas. This magnificent plane operating Paris -Caracas. I'm the time Venezuela was a better times
But it wasn't that luxurious, was it? Small seats in a tiny fuselage - 2+2 seating. And if you were by the window, the fuselage curvature restricted your space significantly. Concorde's internal fuselage diameter was just 103 inches (8ft 7in), and into that width had to be squeezed 4 seats plus the aisle. Not very roomy at all. Fun fact: the fan diameter of the GE9X engine (as fitted to the Boeing 777) is larger - wider, greater, however you want to describe it - that the maximum fuselage diameter of Concorde. The GE9X's is 134 inches, Concorde's maximum external diameter was 113 inches.
You are correct about the seats. They were about the size of a economy seat and with the small cabin it was certainly tight. Very small windows too, just slightly bigger than an adult hand. The luxury though came from the service, mainly the food & drink & of course VIP lounges at the airports. Concord passengers got the best perks in the airline. The other thing about concord was the exclusivity. Most flying, especially to NYC, were successful business people, celebrities and politicians. These were people of influence and many relationships started from meeting onboard concord. The concord seats played a part in this as well as regular aircraft began installing individual privacy pods in first class, the whole meeting people during a flight basically stopped.
@@makomadns4 Is that the overall engine diameter? I think the fan diameter is a little smaller than a Boeing 737, which Wikipedia tells me is 148" external and 139.2" internal.
Ant @Ant I wasn’t complaining! - indeed, I never flew on it. I was just reflecting the fact that flights on Concorde were often referred-to as ‘Luxury’, whereas the reality was, apparently, rather different. As you say, at least the flights weren’t that long. Although they were expensive....
I still remember a BA concorde arrived on soekarno Hatta airport in jakarta to attend the indonesia airshow in 1996, i was 16 back then, i went there with my father since he also work there as ATC and he calls me "son, there's concorde here,do you want to see it? I'll go back to home to pick you up if you want". And man it was such a honor to meet that beauty, i still have photos of it and yeah it was the unforgettable moment in my life
Concorde landing in Kai Tak Hong Kong, 2 legends that we won't be able to see again
I wish they operated the concorde today. Would have been amazing to see the bird soar through our skies.
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Everyone wants to see it flying but no one wants to open the wallet to pay for one.
It would be noisy
Yes i would also like my windows to get broken too
Then hear booms
I knew about these, but I’m a fan.
As a child I watched Concorde land and takeoff at Bahrain 🇧🇭 for a test flight, the inaugural flight, and some more.
Around 1990 or so I saw one of the Air France Concorde charters fly over the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the day of the Indy 500. That Concorde delivered fans of a French driver to the Indianapolis airport whence multiple helicopters ferried them to the Speedway. After the race they used the helicopters again, and the Concorde flew over the speedway again shortly after, presumably on its way back to France. They missed a lot of the festivities, but I’m sure their experience was grand. I don’t know at what east coast airport the Concorde must have refueled in each direction.
Yes. I remember asking my dad to take me to Bahrain Int airport every weekend to watch it land and take off. Highlight of the week :)
U were lucky😔
Seeing a Concorde takeoff was one of the best airport experiences.
It was amazing to see a video of Concorde flying into the famous Kai Tak Airport
Another Concorde video. Blessed be 🙏🏻. I always think so very fondly of my flight on G-BOAE from NYC to London. It was an enthusiast’s dream come true. Thanks again
I live right next to Leeds/Bradford airport and remember the sound of the Concorde coming and going!
Meanwhile Concorde's Soviet rival, the Tupolev Tu-144, flew on a single route from Moscow to Almaty in Kazakhstan. The former Zairean dictator Mobutu also flew on a Concorde from the middle of the jungle just for shopping trips in Paris.
Riding that route would leave you deaf
deathtrap of a plane
Lol Russia
Flew Dulles to Orly in January 1977, what a thrill. 2+2 narrow but very plush seats. Got my Mach 2.02 certificate in the mail 2 months later. Best feature was the “speedometer” in the front bulkhead, everybody clustered around it with cameras when it spooled up past 1.0 then 2.0.
Its sad that I was not even born yet when the concorde had routes to my country...
It flew into Leeds/Bradford airport a few times on pleasure flights. The noise was incredible setting off car alarms and making everything shake in our house.
I'm so happy to see Dulles Airport mentioned after such a long time! Lovely airport.
As a kid, I would see the Concorde overfly my hometown on it's way to Rio. It was a beautiful sight for an aviation fan! I have been so blessed to spend my life in the aviation industry!
My wife’s family are from Bahrain and her dad witnessed Concorde landing at BAH. Every tine we go and visit, I look at that runway as history
I only thought the Concorde flew into Hong Kong when i was a kid.
And the two guys saying first, shut up please?
Correct, they r too lame
wow that seems rlly nice
It did... Kai tak...
first
@@isaactxn yeah, in 1996.
its so happy to see that this beauty flew to my local airport :D
As a young boy I've enjoyed seeing the arrival from Concord in Rio de Janeiro sitting at Copacabana beach.
1997 I've made my first, but not last flight with Concorde from London to JFK...
Highly recommend going to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. You can walk through a concord but also one of the presidential SAM 707s and the prototype 747-100. While the 707 and 747 are set up very differently from normal passenger aircraft you can certainly see just how small the Concord cabin is compared to these other legendary aircraft from the same era.
If Concorde start operation I will definitely fly. Keep up the good work simple flying.
Thanks for the feedback! - TB
Anyone else here wish they were born when the concorde had routes to your country or is it just me?
I was but British airways retired the concord 2 months after I was born😂
Here in Antwerp a Concorde never has landed as far as I know :))
And you are from Bahrein ?
i love these concorde videos!
Thanks for the feedback! - TB
AF flew the Concorde with regular service to Toronto international Airport (YYZ) from from 1986 through 1989. BA also flew there although I believe that was more seasonal.
They did, BA's Concorde flew to Toronto on Thursday afternoons as I used to run outside to watch it on its approach. I'll never forget those RR olympuses!
I literally scrolled down into the comments... I saw 2 people celebrating over being ‘first’, and 2 more people celebrating over being ‘third’. How depressing is that? Great video anyways.
Thanks for the feedback. - TB
155th!!
I wonder if Concorde could have been profitable on a Tokyo - Honolulu - LA/SFO route? What do you guys think?
If they had the range, yes. Paper studies of an upgraded Concorde B anticipated that kind of route. Then take into account the rapid development of E. Asian economies, and the rise of an affluent/business executive market there, and things could have gotten interesting.
@J Calhoun The 747 certainly did have the range, as well as others. Spent much time on that plane and successors flying back and forth from Japan, and between Japan and other destinations around the Asia/Pacific rim.
Braniff did not provide supersonic service. They weren't allowed overland +mach 1 travel, same with flight to Mexico city, they were subsonic overland then supersonic over Gulf of Mexico
I know there was the occasional flight to YYZ, towards the end BA flew it once a week as BA 96/97
I saw Concorde take off from Rio de Janeiro many times in the evenings, standing on the road at the end of the runway.
I miss seeing and hearing concorde roar above my house on take-off, it was a beautiful site
Concorde, 747 and the SR71. Considering the era they were built, the 3 greatest aircrafts if all time. (Just my opinion. Oh, and the Saturn V. )
Thank you so much.
Air France's Concorde flew to Reunion Island(French overseas department) in October 1976 as President Valery Giscard d'Estaing went there! This was the longest domestic flight operated by the Concorde! Also Pope John Paul II flew the Concorde from Reunion too Zambia in Mai 1989 :)
I saw my first one in Paris. Parked next to a 747 - it was extremely small but that obvious contrast was startling. And I would often hear them leaving JFK.
BA flew them into DFW for several months in the late 1980s. IIRC, came in once a week on Thursday, spent the night and then left on Friday. Operated out of terminal 4E and ground serviced by Delta.
I remember a tour that concorde did before his retirement around europe and world and also concorde has landed in Greece too
I vaguely remember seeing a video a couple years back about the world tour they did in like 99 or 0. The only route I remember was LHR-JFK-YVR- somewhere in Hawaii
The Concorde flew the route Paris-Caracas-Paris until 1983.
Simply The Best👍
Concerning the Paris/Dakar/Rio route - Arrival in Rio, Galeao Intl Airport - do we know which runway Concorde landed on - it would be either on RWY15 or RWY33. any info on this ?
I did get to see the Concord fly into Mexico City Benito Juarez more than once.
And then there was the time a Concorde was chartered to fly along the path of the moon's shadow during a solar eclipse en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_June_30,_1973
A great mission, across the Sahara, to Chad. Not the typical charter.
Every time it went to Washington it laid a sonic boom on the Delmarva Peninsula where I lived, though they always denied this was so.
Yes, I knew about the Concorde routes from Dulles to Paris with AF because a Tire burst and failed on an AF Concorde from IAD-CDG and I also knew about the BA route from London Heathrow to Bahrain because the man who broke the world speed record on airline flights flew BA from Heathrow to Bahrain on his journey.
Does G-BOAD still have the Singapore airlines x British airways livery at the museum?
The Concorde with Singapore Airlines livery is depicted on the back of the old Singapore $20 banknote.
It's funny to know that planes were must faster in the past.
There was a concorde that landed in the canary island Lanzarote in Spain in 2000
*****love concord ******
30hour round the world flight on the Concorde and for 15hours you're fly sub sonic. Keep in mind that the seats on the Concorde are essentially economy class seats. I'd rather fly around the world on a wide body in first class
Rovaniemi Finland to see Santa is probably the least known.
My dad told me that a Concorde made a stop in Trinidad in the 80s. When it came to land, the entire terminal shook.
The joke was that the airport could not handle the power
I saw the Concordeseveral times at Galeao airport in Rio de Janeiro. Unfortunately the take-off was not to be seen as the terrace didnot reach the longer runway
The Singapore Airlines concorde flight was scrapped because the Malaysian govt complained the noise was too loud flying over Malaysia. Just trying to unfairly squash competition or jealously in my opinion.
Lol
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 was an ocean liner, a ship designed for making trans-Atlantic crossings, and not a cruise liner, a ship designed to dawdle along the coast incubating disease.
Please make a video on
"Why does the Concord have a tail wheel when when it's already quite high"
It also landed once in Tribhuvan international airport in Kathmandu.🤗✌
AF Concorde came to Montréal a couple of times, but it had to land at Mirabel (because Dorval runways are too short ! - D..m useless airport), offload its passenger and cargo and then fly to Dorval with the minimum passengers for the official ceremonies...
Was there a Concorde with Braniff livery?
I wish your video included the duration of each route compared to the duration today.
I would only imagine a trip from New York to Cancun for the Spring break season. Thing will be taking off at mach one flying down the East Coast over Cuba to Cancun International or the fact of the matter then we would be there in 1 hour and 30 minutes compared to the 4 hour journey that it would take on an 737 400
The true queen of the skies
you guys should do a video about the concorde cargo hold, i cant find anything interesting online
The Concorde also had a route to Toronto.
BA Concorde also flew to Vancouver for expo 86
Caracas? Wasn't expecting that one
Would you like to see a protograph?
Never even mentioned Dublin, or even Shannon where BA trained their pilots.
Yes I flew on all routes to Singapore and Rio
Was on sq Concorde to Bahrain and london 1980 met Princess Margaret on board ..
0:06: Singapore Airlines
AeroPeru an old airline from my country usted to have a share Code with Air France's Concorde from Rio to Paris u.u
I remember them coming to Phoenix in the 1990’s once.
High speed, short distance = Concorde
BTW: I spent more time of my life in airports than in aircrafts.
I heard the Concorde came to LAX once and on its departure some windows were blown out. Concorde never came back...😔
doubtful it blew windows out as that would only happen when breaking the sound barrier
Singapore Airlines planned to use the concorde, but Malaysia won't allow it in their airspace so they cancelled.
Can make a video why Emirates a380 put in the Philippines please
We wrote about it on our website SimpleFlying.com - TB
Did Concord ever fly to Sydney Australia?
You forgot Paris Tehran Kish island
It also flew between the African nation of Zamunda to JFK as well....
Great film :)
The famous Sonic Boom of the Concorde
It's funny how we Indians banned Concorde in our airspace while ourselves using Typhoon-noisy sound-barrier-breaking old fighter jets like the MiG-21. lol
Yes ! We fooled us ourselves 😂
You forgot some routes Concorde came to Barbados from British airways and Air France
yes I did know about them#
Concord also went to Tahiti
The concord fly also to (lows) Salzburg Airport and you can win a austria flight i think
I see reunion tower, I click.
Concorde also flew to Orlando.
I thought Singapore airlines had owned the concorde. Now my doubts got cleared.
No, their livery was painted on the side of one of British Airways' Concordes. :) - TB
@@SimpleFlyingNews yes. I came to know about it from this video. Great video though. Learnt a lot.
I sow Saturday in the morning in my way go to the beach In Maiquetia Airport Caracas. This magnificent plane operating Paris -Caracas. I'm the time Venezuela was a better times
Will Concorde fly again?
Rovaniemi was not mentioned
Thumbnail: where did Concord fly?
Me: uh into the ground?
No I didn't know about these "DESTINATION S"
It also did fly to Hong Kong.
In the sky
But it wasn't that luxurious, was it? Small seats in a tiny fuselage - 2+2 seating. And if you were by the window, the fuselage curvature restricted your space significantly. Concorde's internal fuselage diameter was just 103 inches (8ft 7in), and into that width had to be squeezed 4 seats plus the aisle. Not very roomy at all.
Fun fact: the fan diameter of the GE9X engine (as fitted to the Boeing 777) is larger - wider, greater, however you want to describe it - that the maximum fuselage diameter of Concorde. The GE9X's is 134 inches, Concorde's maximum external diameter was 113 inches.
You are correct about the seats. They were about the size of a economy seat and with the small cabin it was certainly tight. Very small windows too, just slightly bigger than an adult hand.
The luxury though came from the service, mainly the food & drink & of course VIP lounges at the airports. Concord passengers got the best perks in the airline.
The other thing about concord was the exclusivity. Most flying, especially to NYC, were successful business people, celebrities and politicians. These were people of influence and many relationships started from meeting onboard concord. The concord seats played a part in this as well as regular aircraft began installing individual privacy pods in first class, the whole meeting people during a flight basically stopped.
Also to add to your engine fact, those 777 engines are not only larger than the concord’s fuselage but also the 737’s.
@@makomadns4 Is that the overall engine diameter? I think the fan diameter is a little smaller than a Boeing 737, which Wikipedia tells me is 148" external and 139.2" internal.
the point was it didn't need to be because flights were usually only a little over 3 hours. Sheesh some people
Ant @Ant I wasn’t complaining! - indeed, I never flew on it. I was just reflecting the fact that flights on Concorde were often referred-to as ‘Luxury’, whereas the reality was, apparently, rather different. As you say, at least the flights weren’t that long. Although they were expensive....
Fun Fact: Singapore Airlines Concorde still stands at New York. G-BOAD.
I thought BA flew to Hong Kong as well
You forgot one more destination concorde flown it's Hong Kong
didn't they land at Kai tak?
@@bobjones1999 also chek lap kok airport air France only operated there
I see so they flew to both Hong Kong airports
how did Concorde even land at HK Kai Tak
Ba concorde just go to malaysia at 1988
Hong Kong? My dad told me abouth Concordes flying in and out Hong Kong
So landing at Hong Kong would be kai tak? Or have they ever landed at Chep Lak Kok
@@bobjones1999 the legendary kai tak airport
I see. Yh landing at kai tak looked rlly intresting
@@bobjones1999 i wish i was born earlier so that i could witness the landing at kai tak
Did concorde ever flew to India?
Air india had one on order but it was banned in our airspace due to sonic boom
@@sarthsingh3271 What about BA or AF concorde to India?